20th April 2011, 7:12 PM
Yeah here's the deal. Resolution isn't what killed these head sets. I don't remember anyone sticking one of these on their heads way back when and saying "yeah well the resolution sucks". Generally they wore it, were amazed at the 3D and how it responded to head movement, and then quickly realized it made them look stupid and hurt their necks. (The first is more important to a lot of people.) Worse, it completely cuts you off from the outside world. Total immersion in a fictional world is a dream that most people seem to want to stay a dream. There's no way to share the experience with others, or even notice that, say, someone else is in the room with you. That's scary bra!
3D is now moving towards screens people can show to other people. The 3DS is crazy popular, in spite of it's cost and poor battery life. The Virtual Boy cost roughly the same price with roughly the same battery life, but it was ignored as stupid and gimicky.
This was not intended as a factual statement.
3D is now moving towards screens people can show to other people. The 3DS is crazy popular, in spite of it's cost and poor battery life. The Virtual Boy cost roughly the same price with roughly the same battery life, but it was ignored as stupid and gimicky.
This was not intended as a factual statement.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)